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Kate Wells (Famke Janssen) is a beautiful and talented magazine writer who turns to her own life for inspiration when she is given an impossible assignment. Within twenty-four hours, Kate must write a single woman's guide to love and sex. A stranger to both since her break-up with Adam Levy (Jon Favreau), Kate conducts her research by recalling her many calamitous relationships with men, beginning with her first kiss and her first betrayal on the sixth-grade playground. More heartbreaks follow over the years, with married men, Mama's boys, and a multitude of disappointing bachelors. But the man who seems to have had the most impact on her life is Adam, an artist who does not look -- or behave -- like a typical Prince Charming.
Editor's Note
Kate Welles (Famke Janssen) is a writer at Monique magazine whose editor assigns her an article on the perfect relationship. She is supposed to draw on personal experience, but Kate is so unlucky in love that she refers to herself as a "relationship leper." As she sifts through the emotional debris of her past, however, flashbacks reveal that she did once meet a great guy--Adam Levy (Jon Favreau), a painter who swept Kate off her feet and fell in love with her in return. Their relationship ended because Adam didn't feel experienced enough for Kate; now he dates bimbos or, if they're intelligent, "bimbo savants." This romantic comedy about neurotic people pays homage to the Woody Allen and Nora Ephron films that paved its way, but director Valerie Breiman makes the story new with an honest, even blunt, script that speaks to a different generation of dating singles. Janssen is beautiful, bright, and vulnerable at the same time, while Favreau reprises the ironic hipster he played so convincingly in SWINGERS.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Full Frame - 1.33 |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Sterling |
| Release Date: 3/22/2005 |
| Running Time: 97 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 7666 | | UPC: 00658149766624 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Ms. Janssen and Mr. Favreau provide enjoyably consoling company for those still dating their way through life." 08/25/2000 p.E18Entertainment Weekly
"...Janssen sparkles serenely,...single-handedly raising LOVE & SEX to see level..." 09/01/2000 p.53 Total Film
"...There are plenty of laughs to be had in this satisfying smart [film]..." 10/01/2000 p.89 Box Office
"...Funny and realistic....Breiman's observations of the dating game are both clever and accurate..." 04/01/2000 p.226 Los Angeles Times
"...It has substance and emotional depth....Both Janssen and Favreau make strong impressions....It shows its stars to advantage and marks a solid start in features for Breiman..." 08/25/2000 p.C8 |
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